Osmaan

Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell is a true portrayal of the story of 4 naval SEALs who are chosen to the trenches of Afghanistan in 2005. So you ask is this story good use of Rhetoric. My answer would be yes it is because the purpose is to educate, mainly young adults and middle aged people. This book will give you the ability to feel like you are right in the war with Marcus, Danny, Michael, and Matthew.  One thing that is cool about this book is that it is something have all of us have heard about and be all affectived by; Osama Bin Laden. These SEALs are given the difficult task to find and execute Osama.

One of the reason I think this book is such a great source of Rhetoric because it really conveys the messages in a great way. The audience is meant for young adults and middle ages men. The reason the I say that is because of the violence which attracts men and the aspect of war which also intrigue men I assume more then women. The message is something that you can’t forget. Doesn’t matter what people think of you or depict you as because you might not know who they really are in the inside This is just one of the main messages I got out of this book. This is comes from when Luttrell Navy SEALs team all die and then Marcus is left for himself while he is badly injured. You get a sense that he really doesn’t like the afghan people in the beginning. Marcus was found by an Afghani man who takes him to safety and saves his life not only do they save his life they grant him Lokhay which means that they had decided as a community to help, Shelter and protect with there lives for Marcus.  In the US the media seems to not depict the correct image of Afghani people because in America they seem to think that all so called “Brown People” are terrorist.  This is just one of the many messages but this one seemed to stick to me the most because of how true I think this stereotype is.

Rhetoric is used in this book a lot but one thing that you don’t see in this is book is bias. Since the person in the situation tells the book you are able to get more insight full information then you normally would. This would be called the communicator. Which is Marcus the Navy SEALs who is in all the action. The way it is written makes it seem so real and is nothing like we always hear on the news and other places. The state of the audience would most likely be teens around our age who are decided there future and some of them may decide to go to serve our country.  Some people may say that this book has no message or any rhetoric because it doesn’t have enough of a big picture message. I say sometimes a couple little messages have a bigger impact on a person’s life then one big message.

This will go down as one of my favorite book I have ever read because of true grit and heart. I really don’t read to many war type books but this really stuck a cord in me and I’m probably going read more of these types of books from here on out. Rhetoric was used in this book, maybe it didn’t hit you right away but by the end of it you finally got the message.